Omaha Man Sentenced for Firearm and Drug Trafficking Crimes

United States Attorney Susan Lehr announced that Maen Chuol, 24, of Omaha, Nebraska was sentenced on April 24, 2024, in federal court in Omaha for distributing fentanyl and possessing a firearm during a drug trafficking crime.  Chief United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. sentenced Chuol to 46 months’ imprisonment on the drug charge and a consecutive 60 months’ imprisonment on the firearm charge, for a total sentence of 106 months’ imprisonment.  There is no parole in the federal system.  After Chuol’s release from prison, he will begin a 3-year term of supervised release. 

On October 19, 2021, Chuol delivered fifty fentanyl pills to a confidential source with the Omaha Police Department. The transaction occurred in Omaha, Nebraska.  On February 24, 2022, a federal arrest warrant for Chuol was issued by the District of Nebraska for distribution of fentanyl.

Chuol was observed exiting his residence and driving away. His vehicle was stopped, and Chuol was arrested without incident. Officers immediately noticed a strong odor of marijuana coming from the vehicle, looked into the open driver door and observed a small plastic baggie of marijuana on the center console in plain view.

The Ziploc style bag contained numerous small plastic baggies commonly used to distribute narcotics. One small plastic baggie contained seventy-seven suspected fentanyl pills, one contained white powder (suspected cocaine) weighing 3 grams, and three individually packaged pills, one blue pill (suspected fentanyl) and two unknown pills.

Officers secured a search warrant for Chuol’s residence and recovered fifty-six grams of blue fentanyl pills, a plastic baggie containing nine grams of cocaine, a plastic baggie containing seventeen grams of psilocybin mushrooms, and a loaded 9mm Taurus firearm loaded with live rounds, twelve in the magazine and one in the chamber. Officers also located a safe which contained eight thousand US dollars ($8,000) in various denominations. The money was determined to be drug sale proceeds and administratively forfeited to the United States.

The narcotics were later confirmed via forensic laboratory analysis as 4-ANPP (a fentanyl precursor), fentanyl, and cocaine.

This case was investigated by the Omaha Police Department.